6 June 2016
Smug Jay Carson could persuade me never to vote for Hillary
Yes, he could — even if that means enduring four years of President Trump.
Who is the man who has such power? He’s a 39-year-old former deputy mayor of Los Angeles, a screenwriter, a press secretary for Hillary in 2008, and quite possibly the smuggest man on Earth. No, make that the smuggest man in the universe.
He’s also the author of a patronizing, taunting, oped in today’s New York Times:
I understand you may not love (or even like) Mrs. Clinton right now. Perhaps you can’t imagine knocking on doors for her in the cold or donating your hard-earned money to finance her campaign. I’m doing both of those things, but I realize that you may not want to. I felt the same way about Mr. Obama in 2008. In the end I didn’t work hard to get him elected (I really regret that now, by the way), but neither did I do or say anything that would harm his chances. I came to accept that he was, in fact, my party’s nominee and might be the eventual president.
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I know how difficult those lessons about losing can be to impart — and even more so to accept.
Jesus! That smug sonofabitch has been waiting eight years to get even with Barack Obama — but he can’t do that. So instead he’s squirting ammonia in the eyes of Bernie Sanders’ supporters — squirting it in their eyes before the nomination is even decided — squirting it gleefully and maliciously — so sure he is that his hero Hillary will win the nomination.
In fact, he seems to think she’s already won it, which is a pile of oats that just passed through the horse. As Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America’s Future notes:
A race isn’t over until someone wins.
This isn’t complicated. When the primary season ends, neither Sanders nor Clinton will have won the majority of pledged delegates needed to win the nomination. Clinton is likely to end with more pledged delegates and more total votes; Sanders, particularly if he astounds in California, will have shown increasing momentum and popularity. Superdelegates – who make their own decisions on whom to support – will decide the nomination. They can change their minds until they vote at the convention.
Yes. They can change their minds. And that’s what worries Jay Carson and the other Hillary supporters who are trying to bulldoze Bernie off the campaign trail. They fear that if public opinion polls start showing Hillary would lose to Trump, but that Bernie would not, the superdelegates could decide that nominating Bernie (with Hillary as VP) is the best way of keeping Trump out of the White House. Therefore, they want Bernie to surrender before he’s lost. And they want his supporters to beg forgiveness for failing to kiss Hillary’s southern exposure from the gitgo.
President Trump. After reading Carson, President Trump doesn’t sound nearly as bad as it did before. Maybe on election day in November it will sound bad enough that I'll vote for Hillary, but right now, thanks to Carson, and the rest of Hillary’s smug-squared worshippers, that’s damn near the last thing I’m ready to do.